Stories by Kyle Wiggers
AWS launches G4 instances with Nvidia Tesla T4 chips
Vivo’s V17 Pro has a retracting dual selfie camera
Bing Maps team contributes Uganda and Tanzania building data sets to OpenStreetMap
Wing kicks off drone deliveries from Walgreens and FedEx Express in Virginia
Researchers use a nailgun-equipped drone to shingle a roof
Lyft adds protected scooter- and bike-friendly routes to its app
Facebook will bring AR ads to the News Feed fall 2019
Amazon signs Climate Pledge to advance Paris Climate Accords goals by 10 years
Supp AI uses machine learning to identify supplement interactions
Huawei unveils Mate 30 series with no mention of Google
The key to a more human-like Amazon Alexa is unsupervised learning
GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot code exploits
Google rolls out Family Link per-app time limits and bonus time
Alexa users can soon donate to U.S. presidential candidates
Fashion++ turns your fashion Don’t into a Do with minimal tweaks
Facebook’s VizSeq is a visual analysis toolkit for text generation
Salesforce’s Einstein Search uses AI to personalize CRM search results
Tableau’s Explain Data feature uses AI to analyze any data point in a corpus
Acronis raises $147 million for tools that back up, protect, and restore data
Google Assistant adds 9 new AI-generated voices
Uber begins mapping public roads in Dallas for its self-driving systems
Amazon open-sources its Topical Chat data set of over 4.7 million words
Google’s Key Moments provide shortcuts to video highlights
AI helped Facebook identify and ban 200 white supremacist groups
Telstra extends mobile plan to Google Nest devices
Kaia raises $8 million to treat chronic pain with AI-guided exercise
Pinterest’s Lens can now recognize 2.5 billion home and fashion objects
LinkedIn launches Skill Assessments for coding, design software, and business tools
TuSimple raises $120 million to expand its fleet of driverless delivery trucks
Trulioo raises $52.8 million to verify customers’ identities
Apple study suggests chattier users prefer chattier AI assistants
New AI technique targets Alexa’s contextual understanding
$100 million Grant for the Web program seeks alternative online business models
Greenlight raises $54 million for a debit card that teaches kids financial literacy
VMRay raises $10 million for real-time malware monitoring and mitigation tools
Vivo Nex 3 has a 99.6% screen-to-body ratio
Salesforce debuts Manufacturing Cloud and Consumer Goods Cloud
